Re: 39 people found dead in lorry
Originally Posted by
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I don't understand how this illegal immigrants thing works....if it costs them 30k to get a ride in a truck from China....why don't they just buy a plane ticket and join one of the thousands of Chinese tourists that inundate London every year.....then just disappear and stay?
I'm sure that's too simple and there must be a reason why they don't....I can't think of it though.
A person is not permitted to board a flight to the UK unless their documentation is valid. At border control before a person is permitted to enter the UK their documentation must be in order and even then can be turned round and returned to their point of embarkation if the immigration officials decide that an individual does not have a legitimate reason to enter the UK.
Moreover they do not travel by truck from China. They will travel, usually as a group by conventional travel to country within the Schengen Zone, those to the east in particular have very porous borders if any physical borders at all, and once within the EU Schengen Zone can travel restriction free, across all other Schengen EU states by a variety of means up to the border of the Schengen zone.
The UK is not a Schengen EU state and so they are faced with being required to have the correct documentation, often for the first time.
It's at that time when people smugglers use --- things to get them into the UK avoiding our border control.
Once here they are criminals simply by entering our country illegally.
Then they have three options.
#1 Claim asylum which is of course an illegal thing as it contravenes the Dublin Protocol but is usually very difficult to prove.
#2 Enter the illicit workforce employed by the hundreds of thousands of businesses that ask no questions, pay peanuts, and are part of the illicit popular of the UK.
#3 Join one of the many criminal gangs or colonies that have been allowed to become established over here.